Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

2017-04-11 Thread James Potts
As another user, I have an interesting thought: Keep *_TARGETS and *_COMPAT, but add useflags called "[python|php|ruby]-compat-testing", which is at least use.stable.mask'ed (possibly straight-up use.mask'ed), to any ebuild that uses *_COMPAT. Setting the appropriate useflag would allow such ebui

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE flags in virtuals, to allow a specific provider to be determined

2014-07-28 Thread James Potts
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 28/07/14 07:21 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >> Dnia 2014-07-25, o godz. 14:49:44 Ian Stakenvicius >> napisał(a): >> >>> Hey all.. So, putting aside for now how much of a mess this >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] The request to abolish games team policy

2014-07-07 Thread James Potts
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dear Community, > > First of all, please do not take this personally. I don't want to > attack any member of the games team or the team in general. I respect > their experience and long-term contribution to Gentoo. However, > I strongly disagre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is || ( Atom... ) broken?

2014-07-07 Thread James Potts
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Greg Turner wrote: > > WTF is up with it? Why does it love the first Atom so much more than the > > others? > > > > It could be such a useful feature, but, in practice, it just never seems to > > do what I wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

2013-11-13 Thread James Potts
To be honest, I think that printing a summary of masked useflags which contradict a user's settings in USE= at the end of the pretend/ask portion of an emerge would be a step in the right direction. Making it so that portage bails with an error if package.use conflicts with use.(package.)mask woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-28 Thread James Potts
packages from the Live tree, and doesn't want to switch completely over to the live tree? If I understand what you want to do correctly, the Release tree would include only stable packages. Other packages wouldn't just be masked, they would be completely unavailable to anybody using that tree. I like the idea of having a stable p.mask much better, which says "profile" to me. Any thoughts on a special profile just for releases? --Arek (James Potts) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-17 Thread James Potts
hmmmdoesn't the GNU ClassPath implement enough of Java's runtimes to handle a command-line app like this (the app needs, basically, to be able to read files, communicate via the http protocol, print to stdout, and accept input from stdin)? And doesn't Kaffe use the GNU ClassPath? And if this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-24 Thread James Potts
On 6/24/06, Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:07:52AM -0500, James Potts wrote: > There is a problem here for the java folks...Technically, their > migration-overlay is an overlay, and technically, that overlay is > currently unofficial. _Techni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla usage by gentoo-java's doing migration work

2006-06-23 Thread James Potts
There is a problem here for the java folks...Technically, their migration-overlay is an overlay, and technically, that overlay is currently unofficial. Therefore, technically, if it is against the rules for projects and/or devs to use bugzilla for unofficial overlays, then it is against the rules

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt use flag recap - qt3 and qt4 as default?

2006-06-23 Thread James Potts
Hmm...Are thre any packages out there which *must* be built against the same qt as (the rest of) kde? If so, I don't think qt4 should be in the default use flags until KDE4 hits arch. This keeps people from reporting issues with KDE apps built against the wrong version of QT. --Arek On 6/23/06

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending Removal of $KV

2006-06-19 Thread Arek (James Potts)
Alec Warner wrote: Georgi Georgiev wrote: maillog: 19/06/2006-11:13:33(+): Alec Warner types Portage currently exports $KV as the current kernel version. We detect this by attempting to mess around with the things in /usr/src/linux (.config, make files, etc...) This is duplicating the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: using specific gcc-version in ebuild

2006-06-16 Thread Arek (James Potts)
Sven Köhler wrote: some software, like qemu and others, are simply not compatible with gcc 4.x and they will not become compatible due to severe conceptional issues. then they stay broken ... add a warning to the ebuild if `gcc-major-version` is "4" (see toolchain-funcs.eclass) Hmm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Sunrise Project -- Sunrise FAQ

2006-06-09 Thread James Potts
On 6/9/06, Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Markus Ullmann wrote: > Maybe that way we avoid any misunderstandings, nearly doubled posts and > repeating ourselves over and over again. The problem is that some questions and answers easily get lost in a mailing list. To solve this shortc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Sunrise Project -- Sunrise FAQ

2006-06-09 Thread James Potts
On 6/9/06, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 19:10 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Markus Ullmann wrote: > > Maybe that way we avoid any misunderstandings, nearly doubled posts and > > repeating ourselves over and over again. > > The problem is that some questions

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/x11-7* hides real bugs and breaks good ebuilds

2006-06-07 Thread Arek (James Potts)
Donnie Berkholz wrote: Jakub Moc wrote: =virtual/x11-7 is hiding breakage in ebuilds that are not ported for modular X. I couldn't agree more, but I was forced to add this rather than allow unported ebuilds to break. Thanks, Donnie Hmmm...Looks to me like it would be a gre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: automatically killing invalid CFLAGS/warning about bad CFLAGS

2006-04-28 Thread James Potts
den? This doesn't fix the problem with the flag, it just covers it up. In any case, it's a possible problem that I will put up with. btw, I'm not using visibility=hidden (dev-only flag, not for users). --James Potts On 4/27/06, R Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James Potts

[gentoo-dev] Re: automatically killing invalid CFLAGS/warning about bad CFLAGS

2006-04-26 Thread James Potts
R Hill gmail.com> writes: > I've yet to hear of _anything_ that's broken because of > -fvisibility-inlines-hidden. (course someone will undoubtedly point > one out now ;)) > -fvisibility-inlines-hidden not only breaks a number of kde apps afaik (it's filtered now), but it also seems to break SD